"We're very pleased with the progress. We've sold a
little over a million Zunes. In the category we're in, the hard-disk-based
category, we've got about 10 percent market share," said Bach. "It's
a good start. It's not an overwhelming start. I'm not going to pretend it's
some gigantic move."

Microsoft is expecting a rather large uptick in sales
leading up to the 2007 holiday season. The company is building a new
manufacturing plant in China which will produce a second-generation
HDD-based Zune along with a flash-based Zune.

"As to the Wi-Fi, we think the idea of these devices
being connected where you want them connected is very important. That's why we
shipped the original Zune with Wi-Fi built in, remarked Bach. "The cool
thing about that is, the innovation can all be in software. Wi-Fi is an
important area. We'll see how that SanDisk project does."

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holyyy shit, I imagine what big bucks you paid for your trendy iPod back then, wow

I paid about $100 less for comparable Creative Zen and it also served me almost 4 years without a hitch. plus some of more recent Zens have replaceable batteries (like my new Zen Xtra)

well, I decided to get more value and useful features for less money, although iPod is an okay player now, not a trendy overpriced gadget it used to be a long time ago (the first iPod that was mac only and firewire only was such a poor joke, even worse one than Zune today :)